The following comment has been added to this issue: Author: Steve Brewin Created: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 12:16 PM Body: The problem is with installing James within a path structure containing spaces <US-ASCII coded character 20 hexadecimal>.
According to RFC 2396 "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", section 2.4.3 "Excluded ASCII Characters", "The space character is excluded". Elsewhere it explains how a relative path, such as "../conf/james-fetchmail.xml" is resolved by deducing the absolute path, which will include the excluded space character and therefore constitutes a Malformed URI and hence a Malformed URL. Thus, the thrown MalformedURLException is correct. Easy workaround is to avoid installing James within a path structure containing spaces. As this is a Windows specific issue, maybe run.bat could be updated to check for a valid path structure and abort with a friendly explanation? -- Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- View this comment: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-307?page=comments#action_36744 --------------------------------------------------------------------- View the issue: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-307 Here is an overview of the issue: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JAMES-307 Summary: james 2.2.0 run.bat Error building configuration Type: Bug Status: Unassigned Priority: Major Project: James Versions: 2.2.0 Assignee: Reporter: Michael Cook Created: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:50 PM Updated: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 12:16 PM Environment: Windows XP Home SP1 with JSDK version "1.4.1_02" and James 2.2.0. Description: First time thru and subsequently run.bat results in: ==================================================== Using PHOENIX_HOME: C:\Program Files\james-2.2.0 Using PHOENIX_TMPDIR: 'C:\Program Files\james-2.2.0\bin\Files\james-2.2.0\temp' Using JAVA_HOME: c:\Program Files\j2sdk1.4.1_01 Phoenix 4.0.1 There was an uncaught exception: --------------------------------------------------------- --- Message --- Error building configuration from file:/C:/Program Files/james-2.2.0/apps/james/ SAR-INF/config.xml. --- Stack Trace --- org.apache.avalon.phoenix.interfaces.DeploymentException: Error building configu ration from file:/C:/Program Files/james-2.2.0/apps/james/SAR-INF/config.xml. at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.deployer.DefaultDeployer.getConf igurationFor(DefaultDeployer.java:499) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.deployer.DefaultDeployer.deploy( DefaultDeployer.java:325) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployF ile(DefaultEmbeddor.java:498) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployF ile(DefaultEmbeddor.java:491) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployF iles(DefaultEmbeddor.java:476) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployD efaultApplications(DefaultEmbeddor.java:466) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.execute (DefaultEmbeddor.java:224) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.frontends.CLIMain.run(CLIMain.java:158) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.frontends.CLIMain.execute(CLIMain.java:144) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.frontends.CLIMain.main(CLIMain.java:102) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl. java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces sorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.launcher.Main.startup(Main.java:94) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:46) Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ../conf/james-fetchmail. xml at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:579) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:476) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:425) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager. java:796) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager. java:725) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEntityRefer ence(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1073) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContent Dispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1489) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XM LDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:333) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.jav a:524) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.jav a:580) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:152) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.j ava:1169) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.bu ild(ConfigurationBuilder.java:129) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.bu ild(ConfigurationBuilder.java:116) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.bu ild(ConfigurationBuilder.java:97) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.deployer.DefaultDeployer.getConf igurationFor(DefaultDeployer.java:493) ... 15 more rethrown from java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ../conf/james-fetchmail.xml at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:579) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:476) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:425) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager. java:796) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager. java:725) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEntityRefer ence(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1073) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContent Dispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1489) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XM LDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:333) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.jav a:524) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.jav a:580) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:152) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.j ava:1169) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.bu ild(ConfigurationBuilder.java:129) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.bu ild(ConfigurationBuilder.java:116) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.bu ild(ConfigurationBuilder.java:97) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.deployer.DefaultDeployer.getConf igurationFor(DefaultDeployer.java:493) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.deployer.DefaultDeployer.deploy( DefaultDeployer.java:325) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployF ile(DefaultEmbeddor.java:498) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployF ile(DefaultEmbeddor.java:491) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployF iles(DefaultEmbeddor.java:476) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployD efaultApplications(DefaultEmbeddor.java:466) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.execute (DefaultEmbeddor.java:224) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.frontends.CLIMain.run(CLIMain.java:158) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.frontends.CLIMain.execute(CLIMain.java:144) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.frontends.CLIMain.main(CLIMain.java:102) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl. java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces sorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.launcher.Main.startup(Main.java:94) at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:46) --------------------------------------------------------- The log file may contain further details of error. Please check the configuration files and restart Phoenix. If the problem persists, contact the Avalon project. See http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon for more information. Shutting down Phoenix. Press any key to continue . . . Phoenix.log contains: ===================== INFO 2004-07-18 00:30:09.859 [Phoenix ] (): Logger started WARN 2004-07-18 00:30:09.937 [Phoenix ] (): Phoenix was not started by the daemon thus it will not be possible to restart the JVM via the Management interface. INFO 2004-07-18 00:30:10.078 [Phoenix.] (): Work directory does not exist, attempting to create directory C:\Program Files\james-2.2.0\work. INFO 2004-07-18 00:30:10.140 [Phoenix.] (): Installing Sar located at file:/C:/Program Files/james-2.2.0/apps/james.sar. ERROR 2004-07-18 00:30:10.812 [Phoenix.] (): Error building configuration from file:/C:/Program Files/james-2.2.0/apps/james/SAR-INF/config.xml. java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ../conf/james-fetchmail.xml at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:579) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:476) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:425) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:796) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:725) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEntityReference(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1073) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1489) --------------------------------------------------------------------- JIRA INFORMATION: This message is automatically generated by JIRA. 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